Quipu

Every cloud has a silver lining, so the saying goes. Today certainly didn't turn out to plan, but I have to concede it wasn't all bad. Despite a disastrous journey I managed to get home safely and decided to calm my frayed nerves this afternoon by playing with cloth and colour. Experiments with madder below.

Later this evening I was watching a documentary on BBC4 called 'Lost Kingdoms of South America' and came across the term 'quipu' or 'khipu', a beautiful system of recording information using knotted, dyed threads. I immediately felt a connection with these delicate networks of fibre, they appeared to me to be like maps or genealogical charts. This was a timely discovery for me, having recently submitted a proposal for an installation based on threads as linear maps...

... Connections through time and space.